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Thomas Moran and the surveying of the American West
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ISBN: 1560981709 Year: 1992 Publisher: Washington London Smithsonian Institution Press

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The response of western forests to air pollution
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ISBN: 354097895X Year: 1992 Publisher: New York London Paris Springer

Discovered lands, invented pasts : transforming visions of the American West
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ISBN: 0300057229 0300057318 Year: 1992 Publisher: New Haven London Yale University Press : Yale University Art Gallery


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West of everything : the inner life of westerns
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ISBN: 0195073053 Year: 1992 Publisher: New York Oxford Oxford University Press


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The business of newspapers on the Western frontier
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ISBN: 0874173779 9780874173772 0874171849 9780874171846 Year: 1992 Volume: no. 33 Publisher: Reno : University of Nevada Press,

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The thousands of newspapers that were born on the far western frontier in the nineteenth century contributed to the West's social and political development. Newspapers also played an integral role in the region's economic growth because, whatever else motivated their publishers, newspapers were businesses. The Business of Newspapers on the Western Frontier examines the components of the western newspaper business between 1846 and 1890--circulation, advertising, labor, supplies, and other essentials--to show the kinds of problems frontier publishers faced in establishing and operating newspapers in the West. Starting with market conditions and the kinds of people who met the entrepreneurial challenges those conditions presented, the book moves through sources of income and principal expenditures to present a balance sheet that discusses reasons for the many failures and occasional successes. It shows that success or failure had more to do with business ability than journalistic prowess. In many respects frontier publishers' concerns mirrored those of small-town publishers everywhere, but the great distances and rapidly changing conditions of the West compounded the problems. The Business of Newspapers on the Western Frontier provides a behind-the-scenes look at newspaper operation in these challenging circumstances. In doing so, the book shows real people dealing with real problems and dispels many of the myths that cling to the frontier press.

Letters of Mari Sandoz
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ISBN: 058503432X 9780585034324 0803242069 9780803242067 Year: 1992 Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,

Magic Lands : Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940
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ISBN: 0520914473 0585176523 9780520914476 9780585176529 9780520077034 0520077032 9780520084353 0520084357 Year: 1992 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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The American West conjures up images of pastoral tranquility and wide open spaces, but by 1970 the Far West was the most urbanized section of the country. Exploring four intriguing cityscapes-Disneyland, Stanford Industrial Park, Sun City, and the 1962 Seattle World's Fair-John Findlay shows how each created a sense of cohesion and sustained people's belief in their superior urban environment. This first book-length study of the urban West after 1940 argues that Westerners deliberately tried to build cities that differed radically from their eastern counterparts.In 1954, Walt Disney began building the world's first theme park, using Hollywood's movie-making techniques. The creators of Stanford Industrial Park were more hesitant in their approach to a conceptually organized environment, but by the mid-1960s the Park was the nation's prototypical "research park" and the intellectual downtown for the high-technology region that became Silicon Valley.In 1960, on the outskirts of Phoenix, Del E. Webb built Sun City, the largest, most influential retirement community in the United States. Another innovative cityscape arose from the 1962 Seattle World's Fair and provided a futuristic, somewhat fanciful vision of modern life.These four became "magic lands" that provided an antidote to the apparent chaos of their respective urban milieus. Exemplars of a new lifestyle, they are landmarks on the changing cultural landscape of postwar America.


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Wounded knee ou l'Amérique fin de siècle
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ISBN: 2870274270 Year: 1992 Volume: 220

Personal recollections and observations of General Nelson A. Miles, embracing a brief view of the Civil War, or, from New England to the Golden Gate and the story of his Indian campaigns with comments on the exploration, development, and progress of our great western empire
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ISBN: 0585358761 9780585358765 0803281803 Year: 1992 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] University of Nebraska Press

Founding the far west : California, Oregon, and Nevada, 1840-1890
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ISBN: 0520910982 0585200475 9780520910980 9780585200477 0520073487 Year: 1992 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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Founding the Far West is an ambitious and vividly written narrative of the early years of statehood and statesmanship in three pivotal western territories. Johnson offers a model example of a new approach to history that is transforming our ideas of how America moved west, one that breaks the mold of "regional" and "frontier" histories to show why Western history is also American history. Johnson explores the conquest, immigration, and settlement of the first three states of the western region. He also investigates the building of local political customs, habits, and institutions, as well as the socioeconomic development of the region. While momentous changes marked the Far West in the later nineteenth century, distinctive local political cultures persisted. These were a legacy of the pre-Civil War conquest and settlement of the regions but no less a reflection of the struggles for political definition that took place during constitutional conventions in each of the three states. At the center of the book are the men who wrote the original constitutions of these states and shaped distinctive political cultures out of the common materials of antebellum American culture. Founding the Far West maintains a focus on the individual experience of the constitution writers--on their motives and ambitions as pioneers, their ideological intentions as authors of constitutions, and the successes and failures, after statehood, of their attempts to give meaning to the constitutions they had produced.

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Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- United States Local History --- Oregon Territory --- West (U.S.) --- California --- Oregon --- Nevada --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- NV --- Nev. --- State of Nevada --- Nevada Territory --- Država Oregon --- Elegang --- Elegang Zhou --- Estado de Oregon --- ʻOlekona --- OR --- Ore. --- Oregon-shū --- Oregona --- Oregonas --- Oregono --- Oregonshū --- Orehon --- Origŏn --- Origŏn chu --- Shtat Orehon --- State of Oregon --- Штат Орегон --- Орегон --- Ореґон --- Држава Орегон --- オレゴン --- オレゴン州 --- 俄勒冈 --- 俄勒冈州 --- 오리건 --- 오리건 주 --- Alta California (Province) --- CA --- Cal. --- Cali. --- Calif. --- Californias (Province) --- CF --- Chia-chou --- Departamento de Californias --- Kʻaellipʻonia --- Kʻaellipʻonia-ju --- Kʻaellipʻoniaju --- Kalifornii --- Kalifornii︠a︡ --- Kalifornija --- Ḳalifornyah --- Ḳalifornye --- Kālīfūrniyā --- Kaliphornia --- Karapōnia --- Kariforunia --- Kariforunia-shū --- Medinat Ḳalifornyah --- Politeia tēs Kaliphornias --- Provincia de Californias --- Shtat Kalifornii︠a︡ --- State of California --- Upper California --- Πολιτεία της Καλιφόρνιας --- Καλιφόρνια --- Штат Каліфорнія --- Калифорния --- Калифорнија --- Калифорнии --- Каліфорнія --- קאליפארניע --- קליפורניה --- מדינת קליפורניה --- كاليفورنيا --- カリフォルニア --- カリフォルニア州 --- 캘리포니아 --- 캘리포니아 주 --- 캘리포니아주 --- Politics and government. --- Economic conditions. --- Politics and government --- Economic conditions --- 19th century --- 1846-1950 --- 1859-1950

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